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Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To support public-private partnerships that demonstrate how companies, communities, smallholders and governments can work collaboratively to reduce deforestation and benefit forest dependent communities
Programme identifier:
GB-1-202745
Start Date:
2014-12-09
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£114,598,102
Land Degradation Neutrality Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The LDN Fund invests in projects which reduce or reverse land degradation and thereby contribute to ‘Land Degradation Neutrality’. The LDN Fund is co-promoted by the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and Mirova. It is a public-private partnership using public money to increase private sector investment in sustainable development. The fund invests in sustainable agriculture, forestry and other land uses globally. The Fund was launched at the UNCCD’s COP 13 in China in 2017.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-PO009-LDN
Start Date:
2019-12-12
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£10,000,000
The eco.business Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The eco.business fund is a public-private partnership investment fund which aims to shift incentives in financial institutions (i.e. Banks) towards investing in nature, by embedding social and environmental risk into investment decisions, catalysing transformational change in the financial sector. The fund will increase lending to businesses which incorporate sustainable practices that contribute to biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, climate change mitigation and adaptation to its impact across South America: Ecuador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-ICF-P0003-EcoB
Start Date:
2015-12-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£32,625,178
Agriculture Transformation in Ghana
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To accelerate economic transformation in Ghana through developing markets for agriculture and trade, improving resilience to climate change, and creating additional jobs and increased incomes by focusing on the development of high potential value chains in pro-poor sectors, supporting them to become productive, competitive and attractive for investment.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300794
Start Date:
2020-01-13
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£2,472,762
Forest Governance, Markets and Climate
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
A global programme supporting governance and market reforms aimed at reducing the illegal use of forest resources, benefitting poor forest-dependent people and promoting sustainable growth in developing countries.
Programme identifier:
GB-1-201724
Start Date:
2011-08-18
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£281,275,425
Colombia Prosperity Fund programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The UK Prosperity Fund for Colombia is designed to support economic development, unlock economic opportunities and drive growth in the country’s post-conflict and conflict-affected regions.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-3-PF-COB
Start Date:
2016-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£23,350,415
Green Economic Growth for Papua
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The programme aims to promote green growth in Papua. It will contribute to the government of Papua’s vision and spatial plan that intends to preserve 90 per cent forest cover in the province. In doing so the programme will support the provinces transition away from a high carbon business as usual growth trajectory onto a low carbon development pathway. The programme is designed to address the key barriers to private sector development in Papua that will enable firms to pursue low carbon business opportunities. It will work directly with firms, the financial sector, and the public sector to improve the commercial and environmental sustainability of small and medium sized enterprises. In addition, the programme will generate knowledge on how green growth can be implemented in Indonesia and globally.
Programme identifier:
GB-1-205258
Start Date:
2016-10-20
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£11,512,309
Productivity for Prosperity (P4P)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Productivity for Prosperity is a sustainable economic transformation programme that will increase labour productivity and climate-resilience in Tanzania’s job-creating sectors. It will achieve this through private sector development (investment facilitation, trade facilitation and building capabilities of firms) and business environment reform (supporting proportionate and predictable regulation). P4P will dovetail with the UK’s external engagement and influencing activities in Tanzania. P4P will initially prioritise the agroprocessing and horticulture sectors, and will provide flexible support to bolster the UK’s current and future prosperity objectives.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300116
Start Date:
2021-08-11
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£34,999,995
PIDG: Core Support to Private Infrastructure Development Group
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Increased responsible private sector participation in sustainable infrastructure in poorer developing countries through increased flows of private capital & expertise.This will benefit an additional 105.1 million people by the end of 2015.
Programme identifier:
GB-1-203232
Start Date:
2012-03-13
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£515,721,939
The Evidence Fund - 300708
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The Evidence Fund procures and manages research and evaluations that primarily benefit ODA eligible countries. Most research and evaluations paid for by the Evidence Fund are country-specific, and all respond to requests for evidence to inform programme or policy decisions. Primarily serving research requests from HMG’s Embassies and High Commissions in ODA eligible countries, and from HMG policy and strategy teams, the Evidence Fund strengthens the evidence behind the UK’s priority international development investments and development diplomacy. The Evidence Fund also invests modest amounts of non-ODA, to strengthen the evidence behind wider UK foreign policy.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300708
Start Date:
2020-07-30
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£49,275,458
Somaliland Development Fund (SDF) Phase II Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To improve governance, accountability and public service delivery by the Government of Somaliland. This will promote long-term stability in the region and improve the lives of poor Somalilanders. This programme contributes to our SDGs by delivering public services, and building core government capacity and functions and will result in improved planning and delivery for development priorities by 2022.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300368
Start Date:
2017-05-22
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£25,629,050
Annual contribution to the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organisation (EPPO)
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
This UK Government contribution is for EPPO which is an intergovernmental organization responsible for cooperation in plant health within the Euro-Mediterranean region. Founded in 1951 by 15 European countries, EPPO now has 52 members (shown in green on the map). Its objectives are to protect plants, by developing international strategies against the introduction and spread of pests which are a threat to agriculture, forestry and the environment, and by promoting safe and effective pest control methods. Following the terms of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), EPPO is a Regional Plant Protection Organization and thus participates in global discussions on plant health. EPPO is a standard-setting organization which has produced a large number of Standards in the areas of plant protection products and plant quarantine. These Standards constitute recommendations that are addressed to the National Plant Protection Organizations of EPPO member countries. Finally, EPPO promotes the exchange of information between its member countries by maintaining information services and databases on plant pests, and by organizing many conferences and workshops.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-INTLSUB-EPPO
Start Date:
2016-04-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£321,000
Establishing and enhancing veterinary surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and use in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
This project aims to help establish effective surveillance for longer term capacity building for AMR in the terrestrial and aquatic veterinary sectors in selected LMICs, and to enhance veterinary medicines regulatory training.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-VMD-AMR001
Start Date:
2019-09-16
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£400,000
Blue Forests Initiative
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The Blue Forests Initiative aims to design a holistic model for replication for community-led mangrove forest restoration and protection. The programme operates in Madagascar and Indonesia, working with local coastal communities to reduce the deforestation of mangrove habitat, create new sustainable livelihoods, support community health and women’s empowerment and increase climate resilience in coastal communities.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-ICF-P0001-BV
Start Date:
2016-12-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£10,145,972.01
UK Blue Carbon Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
The Fund will promote the sustainable management, conservation and restoration of mangrove habitats by developing and embedding operational blue carbon markets across the Caribbean and Latin America that provide local communities with a sustainable income and assist in moving low-income countries towards low-emission, climate-resilient development.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-ICF-PO008-UKBLUECARBONFUND
Start Date:
2018-12-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£13,782,456
The Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL) - Bio Carbon Fund
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
A multilateral project administered by the World Bank which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the land use sector through sustainable landscape management, whilst improving the livelihoods of forest communities. The ISFL combines upfront technical assistance with results-based finance which rewards countries which implement landscape-level approaches that reduce emissions from the forest and land-use sector. ISFL works with 5 countries: Colombia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Mexico and Zambia. Defra is supporting programmes in Indonesia and Zambia with upfront finance and potentially all countries with results based finance.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-ICF-P0004-ISFL
Start Date:
2013-12-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£65,100,000
UK contribution to the World Bank Group PROBLUE Programme to facilitate sustainable finance for healthy oceans
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
PROBLUE is the World Bank’s leading multilateral mechanism for leveraging and disbursing blue finance towards sustainable ocean sectors and activities. It is a multi-donor trust fund that supports the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14, Life Below Water, and the Bank’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. PROBLUE aims to do this by reducing the existing blue finance gap by creating the necessary enabling environment for public and private sectors to shift from unsustainable to sustainable activities.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-7-BPFPROB
Start Date:
2021-06-01
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£25,000,000
Supporting Inclusive Growth in Somalia (SIGS)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
SIGS programme is the UK’s flagship economic development programme in Somalia. Designed as a flexible and adaptive programme it will provide an immediate response to Covid19. It now has a stronger focus on remittances, supporting UK political leadership in this area, and, accelerated support to key Micro, Small and Medium Sized Enterprise (MSME) sectors including domestic food production and marketing. SIGS will deliver activities to 1. Develop and diversify businesses in approx. 4 high-value sectors. 2. Stimulate investment through developing the financial sector and related policy and or regulatory capacity. 3. Develop the evidence base on inclusive, sustainable, economic development in Somalia. SIGS will provide an essential policy and influencing resource for UK leadership on HIPC debt relief and or the associated reforms, including on the financial sector and counter terrorist financing.
Programme identifier:
GB-GOV-1-300370
Start Date:
2020-08-21
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£37,069,997
Enabling the Business of Agriculture
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
To improve the enabling environment for private sector investment in agriculture by providing policy-makers with relevant indicators on the ease of doing business in agriculture. This will benefit smallholder farmers and agribusinesses in more than 40 countries in Asia and Africa by supporting policy and regulatory improvements and removing obstacles to investment in agriculture. This contributes towards our MDGs by increasing investment and raising incomes and creating new jobs in the agricultural sector and improving poor people’s access to food.
Programme identifier:
GB-1-204123
Start Date:
2013-11-18
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£5,043,977
India: Infrastructure Loan Fund - Small loans to bridge the infrastructure gap for the poor
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
The Programme is expected to directly result in access to new/import infrastructure services such as electricity, sewage and transport to an estimated 280,000 people.To improve access to better quality transport, clean energy and basic urban services for households and businesses, by providing loans to private sector-led infrastructure projects. This will benefit an estimated 280,000 people with improved infrastructure services.
Programme identifier:
GB-1-202869
Start Date:
2013-10-22
Activity Status:
Implementation
Total Budget:
£37,999,998